Planes Flying Over D.C. for Aerospace Defense Tests

Look skyward Tuesday and you might see some low-flying military aircraft over the District of Columbia.

But don’t panic: The planes are likely part of a practice run.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command will be practicing intercept and identification procedures over the region between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. More exercises will take place Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

The flights are scheduled to take place in or around the District, Virginia and Maryland. People in those areas may hear and or see low-flying NORAD-controlled helicopters flying near military or military contracted aircraft.

NORAD has tested its systems throughout the U.S. and Canada on a rotating basis since the start of Operation Noble Eagle, the command’s response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The organization tests responses to a variety of scenarios including airspace restriction violations and hijackings. Tuesday’s test flights mark the first time NORAD has tested in the National Capital Region this year, according to authorities.

In June, Capitol Hill witnessed a NORAD interception. A rogue plane flying in restricted airspace on a Saturday afternoon caused a brief evacuation of the Capitol. The plane was intercepted by two F-16s under the direction of NORAD.

The Mooney M20C aircraft, which had departed from Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Westfield, Mass., flew into restricted airspace over D.C. and was out of contact with air traffic controllers. NORAD escorted the plane out of the restricted area and landed at a Mount Airy, N.C., airport where it was met by law enforcement officials.

NORAD and its geographical component, Continental United States NORAD Region — which conducts exercises on a monthly basis — also will perform training flights over D.C. on Wednesday between midnight and 2 a.m.

A series of training flights involving Civil Air Patrol aircraft and Civil Air Patrol aircraft and a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter are scheduled for overnight hours. The exercise, held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Coordination Center, the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR’s Eastern Air Defense Sector, is designed to hone NORAD’s intercept and identification operations. It also tests the NCR Visual Warning System, and training personnel at the JADOC.

Officials say all exercises are carefully planned and closely controlled. In the event of inclement weather, the exercises may be rescheduled or postponed.

Since the 2001 attacks in Washington and New York City, CONR fighters have responded to more than 5,000 possible air threats in the United States and have flown more than 62,500 defensive attacks with the support of Airborne Warning and Control System and air-to-air-refueling aircraft.

Redbird25

Aug. 19, 2014
1:38 p.m.

god

Aug. 19, 2014
5:02 p.m.

The missing nukes…99.9% of the population has no idea what you are talking about and won’t believe anything but the official government lie when and if they use these nukes to stage a false flag. It’s sad people just believe what they are told vs using their minds for critical thinking. The people running the federal government are evil!

glock22

Aug. 19, 2014
1 p.m.

People better get ready to fight. The country is a powder keg getting ready to explode and the epicenter is in the heart of St. Louis, MO. When the officer is proven to have acted appropriately, the race war begins…it will spread to every city in the Unites States prompting Martial Law. This event has all been planned out in advance. That’s why you have Eric Holder coming to town, Military presence, 50 FBI investigators…all for the shooting of ONE man. There were 10 killings last night alone in Chicago but nobody seems to care. We are on the cusp of fighting for the heart and soul of America. Are you ready?

welovetheUSA

Aug. 19, 2014
1:05 p.m.

Its what Obama wants to happen..but it will not happen. The military cant stand Obama, the American people who work hard, obey the laws will not rise up over this mess over a black kid who broke the law.

Redbird25

Aug. 19, 2014
1:39 p.m.

eze240

Aug. 19, 2014
4:58 p.m.

While it is true that the military mostly hates Obammy……something like 75/25 is the typical split in favour of conservatives.
But, we must also make careful note of other things happening here……things like:
The on going demobilization of the military….they are still reducing the force size, this does a couple things for the socialist left agenda
Less forces that could be arrayed against them.
Replacement of remaining unit commanders who do not agree with the current gov’t actions.
Also, they are rapidly disposing of equipment and materials, a portion is going to militarized police and “security” agencies, who have loyalty only to the left. The rest is being destroyed….ships,planes,tanks, etc,etc…..
This is done to prevent or reduce the amount of weapons and equipment that can be used against the gov’t and the Socialists in event of civil war…..
They forget or discount the numbers of veterans who will be likely to move against them….of course, they can’t just execute veterans and citizens just yet, so all they can do is make it more difficult for anyone to fight them……
They’ll get around to mass extermination later….

Stellar Awesome

Aug. 19, 2014
1:05 p.m.

Martial law will be declared so Dictator Barry can serve 3rd , 4th terms… you are correct AG Holder is here to make sure the story plays out. God Help us all, arm up and say good by to your liberal neighbor if you have any as you’ll be fighting them very soon.

ckirmser

Aug. 19, 2014
1:10 p.m.

Except that there is no provision in the Constitution for Obama to serve any more terms, martial law or not – there is also no provision in the Constitution for declaring martial law, in the first place.

Stellar Awesome

Aug. 19, 2014
1:14 p.m.

wesley69

Aug. 19, 2014
1:34 p.m.

Reid still has to get such legislation past the House and the Republicans if they know what is good for them, need to kill it. It is time to defund every department and agency carrying out unconstitutional actions. This crisis, brought on deliberately by the president, is coming to a point of going over the edge.

ckirmser

Aug. 19, 2014
2:05 p.m.

That has nothing to do with martial law or Obama serving another term.
He is prevented from serving another term because of the 22nd Amendment. The only way he can bypass that is by getting another Amendment passed, repealing it. In order for an Amendment to pass, it must be ratified by 2/3s of the States.
There is no “nuclear option” imaginable that can get the Senate majority leader to dictate to the States.

Ryan

Aug. 19, 2014
2:30 p.m.

He doesn’t go by OUR Constitution, He derives his Authority from the NDAA- His Constitution by use of EXE ORDER

ckirmser

Aug. 19, 2014
2:50 p.m.

No, he doesn’t. Loosen your tin-foil hat.

USDfiatmony

Aug. 19, 2014
1:36 p.m.

Obastard’s motto: “we don’t need no stinking ole paper authored by ole white racists, I have a pen, phone and a crooked Attorney General and court system…”

ckirmser

Aug. 19, 2014
2:07 p.m.

None of which will avail him in directly contravening the Constitution.
If he can do it, then we may as well hang it up, anyway, because more than just the federal government will have been corrupted.
Fine, you don’t like Obama, neither do I. But, that doesn’t mean you toss rational thought out the window.

Klaus

Aug. 19, 2014
2:38 p.m.

Chief Justice Roberts will find martial law inside the Constitution. Right next to where he found the ObamaCare tax.

Ryan

Aug. 19, 2014
2:29 p.m.

I have a pen, phone and –THE NDAA, that he derives his full authority from –a crooked Attorney General and court system..

Klaus

Aug. 19, 2014
2:37 p.m.

Can you imagine how much fun Obama would have with the Line Item Veto that Reagan wanted?

Klaus

Aug. 19, 2014
2:36 p.m.

Rex84, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1984, established the mechanism for declaring martial law in America.

Ryan

Aug. 19, 2014
2:25 p.m.

Well, That is because the Constitution belongs to the US-The American
People and HE doesn’t follow it.. The New OBAMA Constitution that is Sanctioned by his Puppet
Masters in the UN is Called the NDAA.. And yes, ALL of his POWER of
these ILLEGAL EXEC. ORDERS are derived from the power in that Document.

ckirmser

Aug. 19, 2014
2:49 p.m.

Josh Bond

Aug. 19, 2014
1:12 p.m.

Dixie fan

Aug. 19, 2014
1:34 p.m.

Although I agree that the levers of power are not controlled by the faces we see and recognize as our elected government, I fail to see what benefit would be derived by openly displaying a dictatorial government that no one could reasonably deny. Don’t the powers that be have a lot invested in continuing to convince the American people that the charade of electoral democracy is fair and representative of the public? I ask this not to be antagonistic, rather in an attempt to learn and exchange ideas respectfully. Thanks!

Klaus

Aug. 19, 2014
2:33 p.m.

Bush didn’t leave. He wears an Obama mask.

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
2:47 p.m.

“The North American Aerospace Defense Command”

Mexico, Canada, and USA Aerospace Defense Command run by foreigners for the benefit of foreigners as we have seen with their diligent and orchestrated performance at the US southern border where tunnels with trains and rail roads exist.

LOL

Feeling really UBER safe with foreigners at the helm.

NSA and Germany working together too.

Talbot

Aug. 19, 2014
3:03 p.m.

Mexico is not in NORAD and never has been. It’s the US and Canada and it was originally created decades ago to protect the US and Canada from Russian bombers during the cold war. Learn some history morons.

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
3:06 p.m.

Friday, 27 June 2014 12:30
“After America Comes North America,” Gen. Petraeus Boasts
“… Most of the establishment press missed Petraeus’ comments at the summit, as well as the significance of what he was saying. Outside of the alternative media and a blog post about the London gathering in the U.K. Telegraph, in fact, there was virtually no coverage of the comments on the “North American” superpower that the senior establishment figure openly claimed was going to take over after America’s dominance fades.

One of the few to catch it all was reporter David Knight at Infowars. “He essentially dances on the grave of the sovereign state of America that he says is being replaced, or has been replaced, by NAFTA,” Knight said in a newscast about Petraeus’ extreme comments. “Of course, it’s ironic that Margaret Thatcher was essentially driven out of being the U.K. prime minister
after she opposed the idea of getting rid of nation-states in the European Union when she went to Bilderberg.” In recent years, Petraeus has become a regular at the annual Bilderberg summits, where top globalists in Big Business and Big Government meet…”

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
3:14 p.m.

Now we also know from a cable show about the Egyptian pyramids with Dr Zahi Hawass the USA gave him technology that identified undergrund tunnels and former/underground pyramid sites yet to be unearthed…

Question: Since the USA has the ability to id lost tunnels in Egypt why has the USA not addressed the tunnels made to thwart US Immigration laws and smuggling goods into the USA. Some of those tunnels have trains on rail roads tracks that bring in human cargo as well as counter ban and … well?

Oh I do know my history the real question is who do some think they are fooling?

allegra

Aug. 19, 2014
5:13 p.m.

How neat is that more underground tunnels
yet to be found in Egypt!!

Talbot

Aug. 20, 2014
5:41 p.m.

You need to take your meds buddy.

Talbot

Aug. 20, 2014
5:42 p.m.

Has zero to do with NORAD. NORAD predates all of this nonsense.

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
3:33 p.m.

Talbot wrote 11 days ago “A dangerous isolationist who would abandon our alliances with NATO, Japan, South Korea, etc.”

Talbot

Aug. 20, 2014
5:45 p.m.

I stand behind that statement. Seems you are now stalking my profile.

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
3:36 p.m.

‘Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood’ Last updated at 17:53 03 November 2007

“… According to Blears: “One guy, they cut off his head halfway and let him flop around on the deck. The others I saw, they just lopped them off with one slice and threw them overboard. The Japanese were laughing and
one even filmed the whole thing with a cine camera.”

Blears waited for his turn, then pulled his hands out of his bindings and dived overboard amid machine-gun fire.

He swam for hours until he found a lifeboat, in which he was joined by two other officers and later an Indian crewman who had escaped alone after 22 of his fellow countrymen had been tied to a rope behind the I-8 and
dragged to their deaths as it dived underwater.

Uchino, who was hailed a Japanese hero, ended the war in a senior land-based role and was never brought to trial….” (UK Daily Mail)

Checker72

Aug. 19, 2014
5:15 p.m.

That would require some research and knowledge prior to spewing ‘information’. That’s something most in this country simply don’t do anymore.

Mobley22

Aug. 19, 2014
3 p.m.

IMPEACH OBAMA NOW. The effects of energizing the conservatives will be more than the effects of energizing the communists that are everywhere among us, including in the Oval Office.

allegra

Aug. 19, 2014
5:11 p.m.

Obama probably will be the first one out the White House door
on 1/20/17……………

Klaus

Aug. 19, 2014
8:32 p.m.

lee

Aug. 19, 2014
3:34 p.m.

Wally

Aug. 19, 2014
1:06 p.m.

I will not fight my own countrymen. I think this is prepping for Nuclear Attack from Russia. Since this administration kept backing Putin into a corner that eventually a cornered animal will bite back.

wesley69

Aug. 19, 2014
1:29 p.m.

How many FBI agents investigated Benghazi??? How many FBI agents have been investigating the IRS scandal???? How about Fast & Furious??? How about the violence in Chicago?

Yet we have 50 in Ferguson, Missouri. Is there something wrong with this picture???? There had better be no railroading of this police officer. We are suppose to be a country of law, not at the dictates of our ruler. Outsider agitators are pouring into Ferguson. Is this something sponsored by the Justice Department as it was in Sanford, Florida???

Martin Luther King Jr. make major strides to improve the lives of Blacks and sought to incorporate them into America. The years that followed were slowly achieving that objective. Indeed, we are a stronger country, a better country, a moral country when we all are united and feel a part. It seems that under Obama, this progress has been lost.

Richard Nelson

Nov. 24, 2014
6:42 p.m.

David Lemont

Aug. 19, 2014
1:42 p.m.

It is no more a poweder keg than at any time in our history. If people were better educated about the past they’d see that. It was a little over a hundred years ago California was sending troops to fight Arizona over water rights, that Maine declared war on Canada. Racial tensions had Missourians killing Kansans in bloody wars of the midwest. Nice attempt drama queen. And no most white Americans don’t care about black on black crime in Chicago, no more than they did 100 years ago.

Talbot

Aug. 19, 2014
3:07 p.m.

SWDC

Aug. 19, 2014
3:51 p.m.

‘Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000
Allied seamen in cold blood’ Last updated at 17:53 03 November 2007 UK DAILY MAIL

At Nuremberg Trials Germans were hung some for just following orders but not the Japanese who actually attacked the USA at Pearl Habour and on the main land with a balloon bomb killing one American family in Oregon May 05, 1945. In fact Japan sent over so many bombs on balloons US Military created its very own to address the attacks, The Triple Nickels 555th …

Yup and Japan never repaid its WWII war debt to the USA never mind its commanders standing trial for war crimes biological ones against Chinese and our very own US troops and remember cutting off their you know and force feeding the parts prior to killing US troops ….

Talbot

Aug. 20, 2014
5:52 p.m.

Yeah. I want to talk about how you appear to be an ignorant nutcase. The Japanese were tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Tojo was executed. And none of this has anything whatsoever to do with NORAD.

SWDC

Aug. 20, 2014
5:58 p.m.

‘Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood’
Last updated at 17:53 03 November 2007 (UK DAILY MAIL)

Reading is fundamental.

Talbot

Aug. 21, 2014
1:27 a.m.

NORAD has nothing to do with Japanese war criminals.

doublehotdog

Aug. 19, 2014
2:32 p.m.

oh please, powder keg my a**. This will all blow over just like the Trayvon thing.

stormykitteh

Aug. 19, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Just because those who yearn for martial law want it, that won’t make it so. Pot stirring domestic enemies are trying so hard to divide Americans at every turn – racial, socio-economic, religious, you name it.

It’s hot out now. Hot weather makes folks restless and irritable. When the weather cools, these flareups on the reservations will die right on down. Unless they bring Eldridge Cleaver fashion designs back. Then it might be on.

god

Aug. 19, 2014
5:05 p.m.

What I find most incredible is that there are a bunch of people who agree with you on this board (me being one of them) and yet we’re being sold by the MSM how everything is fine and how wonderful the government is. It’s like we all know the truth and our federal government has now made us the American people enemy #1.

Mystick

Aug. 19, 2014
1:07 p.m.

Jason Priestley

Aug. 19, 2014
1:12 p.m.

I hope they do as good a job protecting DC as they’ve done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Israel. Just throw some water bottles out of the plane if DC is being attacked. That’ll stop them.

Josh Bond

Aug. 19, 2014
1:13 p.m.

johnny99

Aug. 19, 2014
1:18 p.m.

The article fails to mention what a failure and a fraud NORAD is. According to evidence presented at a Congressional hearing after 9/11, NORAD failed to scramble jets until after the terrorist attacks, then NORAD and the FAA lied to cover up their failure.

ISIS-IS-CIA

Aug. 19, 2014
1:43 p.m.

tony tyler

Aug. 19, 2014
1:20 p.m.

maybe they should test their system over the southern border.. all of this is fake.. they say they are protecting the country when millions of thugs and illegals are coming across the southern border.. people we are on our own now… the system can go straight to hell.

Rush Izright

Aug. 19, 2014
1:29 p.m.

Christopher Gadsden

Aug. 19, 2014
1:37 p.m.

They had drills on 911 as well. Drills like crazy, but they can’t protect a single thing from beardies with box cutters. A drill always accompanies a FALSE FLAG! Why? Compartmentalization. Figure out how the foreign run government attacks the citizens.

USDfiatmony

Aug. 19, 2014
1:38 p.m.

Mr. Ed

Aug. 19, 2014
1:38 p.m.

False flag coming soon, too many things going on that Obama can’t handle, exercises were going on during 9/11, sandy hook, boston marathon and the list goes on. During all those drills, the real thing happened. Be vigilant, be prepared, bad things coming our way. Han Solo said it best, I have a bad feeling about this.

TylerDurden0xb

Aug. 19, 2014
1:47 p.m.

Mr. Ed

Aug. 19, 2014
1:48 p.m.

Two years ago, there was a social breakdown drill conducted in St. Louis, Mo., in fact similar drills like these have been happening all over the United States. The DHS has all the equipment they need and their personnel trained, all that’s left is a date for major chaos to happen. That date could be tomorrow or the next day, or next week. Will you be ready? Or what will you do when you hear the blackhawks over head and the roar of DHS armored vehicles rolling down your street. It’s going to happen sooner or later.

David Lemont

Aug. 19, 2014
1:49 p.m.

Internet comments really demonstrate how unintelligent most people are, also how fear driven and rather primitive they are. We as a species give humanity too much credit for in terms of intelligence and reasoning. The founders understood this which is why they created a Republic. Direct Democracy would empower the average idiot as well as the 49% even dumber than the average.

We all know the aliens will be here soon enough to battle the reptilians overlords who have assumed control of our government.

Aug. 19, 2014
2:12 p.m.

Bit Coin

Aug. 19, 2014
1:50 p.m.

StarTripper

Aug. 19, 2014
2:42 p.m.

Until 9-11 NORAD was configured to look for intruders coming INTO US airspace and not planes already inside US airspace. Add to that that FAA didn’t know how to handle planes that turn off their IFF’s and you have the essence of a well planned and executed attack.

Bruiser in Houston

Aug. 19, 2014
2:16 p.m.

JB

Aug. 19, 2014
2:19 p.m.

Cant most of you feel it..Something is not right.. It feels wrong..open the southern border and let God Knows what in..play games to the US theater like protecting out skies..Fema Zone 3 alerts..Fema camps..Under the airport hidaways..The president playing lame..Ebola patents , ISIS ….racial /authority unrest….Oh something’s coming all right…hold your children close…

Rollo Tomasi

Aug. 19, 2014
3:34 p.m.

Will setag

Aug. 19, 2014
3:38 p.m.

I really don’t think this has anything to do with terrorist or Russia..
I believe this has to do with the people here in this country going to revolt once all these illegals swamp our cities and towns.
The government has been planning for this …but they need those democrat voters to come across the border.

Stelex

Aug. 19, 2014
4:28 p.m.

oilcanp

Aug. 19, 2014
4:15 p.m.

Tipi Rick

Aug. 19, 2014
4:27 p.m.

They testing for a reason; a clear and present danger. So much for the War on Terror ending, BHO. Hell, we haven’t hardly even started the War on Terror… here or even in Iraq & Afghanistan. The next Mooney pilot will smile back from under his head dress and with a big toothy Arab smile at the F-16s and detonate, right on target.

Sensible

Aug. 19, 2014
4:28 p.m.

albermarle19

Aug. 19, 2014
4:31 p.m.

@ glock22 Do you work for CNN or MSNBC, the same people fanning the flames in St. Louis?
I think you are going a little over the edge with your speculation…leave that up to the “professionals” in the MSM or Obama Media Syndicate as I like to put it!
Do have a great day, buddy, take it easy!

Aug. 19, 2014
4:45 p.m.

Ryan

Aug. 19, 2014
5:01 p.m.

Better look out for ANOTHER False Flag:
Where was NORAD on 9/11? 24/7/365 for 60+ YEARS, NORAD was “standing by” yet on ONE day…..? FUNNY how NORAD is NOWHERE when it is NEEDED.
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How do THREE buildings fall STRAIGHT down? Since WHEN does THIS Government come rushing out handing BILLIONS of Dollars left and right to victims of something that the Government has not (yet) been PROVEN to have been part of !? This government denied WWI Bonus Army, It denied leaving 8,000 POWS alive in Korea, it denied Agent Orange Vets, It denied Gulf War Syndrome Vets, even TODAY it denies CURRENT Vets treatment for PTSD and injuries from Iraq …….. And people don’t think throwing those BILLIONS around before the dust settled on 9/11 was SUSPICIOUS ! Meanwhile, OBL puts out more videos than Madonna, whenever THEY need one ………..

bt1

Aug. 19, 2014
5:16 p.m.

RUsure

Aug. 19, 2014
5:52 p.m.

Jon_Babtist

Aug. 19, 2014
6:06 p.m.

Obama and Holder have said they fear a nuke terrorist attack in New York City.
Could this be a hint of the next big false flag operation being planned?
Also could this be a threat that if there is any serious challenge to Obama’s
ongoing jihad against America that there will be consequences?

WBCarson

Aug. 22, 2014
6:59 a.m.

How about doing something about the Russian thermonuclear bombers which have invaded our airspace this past year, the Chinese planes harassing us in international airspace?
Oh thats right, its the Citizens who are the real threat to the government.

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